Cop, mom and and child injured in two-car Marshfield crash

The Wednesday morning crash occurred when a female driver’s car slid on black ice and rear-ended a parked police cruiser. A 5-year-old child was in the female’s vehicle. All 3 were hospitalized with minor injuries.

A police officer and a mother and her five-year-old child were hospitalized with minor injuries, after the female driver's vehicle rear-ended a parked police cruiser Wednesday morning.

Police Capt. Michael McDonough said the crash occurred at 8 a.m. He said the officer was sitting in his cruiser on Warren Avenue, at the Summer Street intersection, when a Dodge Durango driven by the woman slid on black ice, went out of control and collided with the rear end of the cruiser.

"It's totaled," McDonough said of the cruiser. "She hit it pretty hard."

McDonough said the officer, mother and child were all taken to South Shore Hospital, and that the officer was back on duty later in the morning.

"Any time someone is hit that hard, we send our guy down (to the hospital)," McDonough said.

The ages of the officer and woman weren’t immediately available. It also wasn’t immediately known if the child is male or female.

The vehicles were towed from the scene an hour after the crash. McDonough said the accident is under investigation, and that the Dodge driver hasn't been cited yet.